“PRISONERS”

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 773, 20 September 1929, Page 14

“PRISONERS”

CORINNE GRIFFITH'S BEST TIVOLI’S FINE PICTURE Many of Ferenc Molnar’s celebrated plays have been successfully adapted to the screen in recent years, such as “The Swan,” “The Devil” and others, but it remained for Corinne Griffith to be the first to bring one of the distinguished Hungarian playwright’s novels to the silver screen. Last night this beautiful star enthralled a capacity audience at the Tivoli Theatre by her sincere, brilliant and vital performance in the role of Riza Riga, a Hungarian peasant girl, who steals for love and brings to her sweetheart a seven months’ term in prison as her only dowry. Riza is a coquettish adventurous entertainer in a night club in Vienna, who longs for a better life, but does not scruple to steal the money with which to escape from her disagreeable surroundings. She become a waitress in a pastry shop, where she falls In love with one of the customers, a highly respectable and thoroughly conventional young lawyer engaged to be

married to a girl of his own class, who shares his prosaic and proper views on life and love. An enjoyable supporting programme was also shown, including a thriller entitled “Harvest of Fate,” a comedy and TJ.F.A. gem.